Month: June 2015

Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you, Tony Hancock once asked of his fellow jurors. He was not the first person, or the last, to address the meaning of Magna Carta – a document, we are told, which celebrates its 800th anniversary today. So what, if anything, does Magna Carta mean? One way of answering this question … Read more

The ‘debate’ over human rights law in the United Kingdom can bring to mind two quotes well-known to history students. The first quote is from the essayist William Hazlitt (though it seems the original comment from Daniel Defoe cannot be traced): “Defoe says, that there were a hundred thousand stout country-fellows in his time ready to fight to the … Read more